The 58th Operations Group at Kirtland AFB, N.M. and three other states trains Airmen to fly nuclear security, distinguished visitor airlift, special operations and combat search and rescue aircraft, from fixed-wing to tilt-rotor to helicopters. Col. Megan Ripple (right), commander of the 58th Operations Group at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., speaks at a ceremony Jan. 8, 2021, honoring Wendy Smith, left, an air traffic controller at the Albuquerque International Sunport/Kirtland AFB. For her actions Nov. 10, 2020, Smith is credited with preventing a "catastrophic failure" of a CV-22 that could have claimed the lives of the six crew members aboard and possibly destroyed a $90 million aircraft. The 71st Special Operations Squadron conducts training in the special operations tilt-rotor CV-22 Osprey. (U.S. Air Force photo by John Cochran.)
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